Two-player games you can play online with a friend on different devices

Games for two, on two devices

• Splatbarn

  Capture the flag in first person, with farm animals.

  2 to 16 players, in any mix of people and bots. Invite by room code, no account.

• Kartzoom

  Kart racing with eight animal drivers on six circuits.

  Race friends; computer drivers fill the rest of the eight-kart grid. Invite by link, no account.

• Letterloft

  A word-tile game on the full board, with the real tile bag.

  Two to four players on one board, or you against the computer. Invite by link, no account.

• Wordburrow

  Four word games on one page - Guesswise, Combword, Groupseek and Gridseek - with big letters and no timer.

  Up to four people working the same puzzle together. Invite by room code, no account.

• Rookwise

  Complete chess with big high-contrast pieces and no clock.

  Two players, or you against a computer that plays at your level. Invite by link, no account.

• Jumpwise

  English draughts: sheep against cows, with crowned kings.

  Two players, or you against a computer that plays at your level. Invite by link, no account.

• Pawnrush

  Four farm teams, a six to come out and an exact roll to finish.

  Up to four players; the computer takes any team nobody took. Invite by link, no account.

• Sweepwise

  Minesweeper, solo or a race.

  Race a friend on the same mines. Invite by link, no account.

• Gomowise

  Five in a row, with freestyle, omok and caro rules.

  Two players on one device or online, or you against the computer. Invite by link, no account.

• Relaywise

  Word chain in eight languages, against a turn timer.

  Two players on one device or online. Invite by link, no account.

• Trucowise

  Argentine truco, 1v1 or 2v2.

  Two to four players. Invite by link, no account.

• Buracowise

  Brazilian buraco, 1v1 or 2v2.

  Two to four players. Invite by link, no account.

• Moon Life

  A cozy farming game on a tiny moon, with a friend who visits.

  You and a friend, who visits your moon and helps. Invite by room code, no account.

Which one for which evening

• Twenty quiet minutes and a bit of thinking: Rookwise is complete chess, with castling, en passant, promotion and every draw, in big high-contrast pieces. Jumpwise is English draughts, sheep against cows, and quicker to learn.
• Chatting on a call while you play: Pawnrush. Luck keeps it friendly, and with two of you the computer runs the other two teams.
• You both like words: Letterloft if you want to compete on a full fifteen by fifteen board, or Wordburrow if you would rather solve the same puzzle together. It is co-operative, not a race, and there is no timer.
• Something loud: Splatbarn is capture the flag in first person, and bots fill both teams when there are only two of you. Kartzoom puts you both on an eight-kart grid with computer drivers in the rest.
• Something slow: in Moon Life you read out your moon's six-character code and your friend comes to visit and help with the harvest.

How to play with a friend on another computer or phone

1. Open the game's page here and press Play. Nothing downloads; the game starts in the tab.
2. Start a room. Chess, Checkers, Ludo, Tiles and Kart give you a link to send by text, email or chat. Splatbarn, the word games and Moon Life give you a short room code you can read out loud.
3. Your friend opens the link, or types the code, in any modern browser: Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, on a laptop, a Chromebook, a tablet or a phone.

There is no account at either end and no game server in the middle: the two browsers connect directly. If a room never connects, the usual cause is a very locked-down network that blocks browser-to-browser connections, typically a work VPN. Switching one device to a phone hotspot is the fix.

Questions

Can two people play these games on different computers or phones?

Yes. One of you starts a room and sends the link or reads out the room code; the other opens it in their own browser, on a laptop, a Chromebook or a phone. The two browsers connect to each other directly.

Do we need to sign up or download anything?

No. Every game runs in the browser tab. There is no account to make, nothing to install, and no ads.

What if my friend is not online right now?

Chess, checkers, ludo and Letterloft all have a computer opponent, so you can play alone and invite a person later.

More ways to browse

Want more than two players? See multiplayer browser games. Prefer a board? Board games with friends. Word people: free word games.